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By DAVE TAYLOR
The Trimble Banner
For Trimble County fans last week’s battle with visiting Carroll County delivered everything spectators of a rivalry game could hope for. For disappointed Carroll fans the outcome fell a basket short as the Panthers led most of the way until an empty stretch in the final quarter allowed Trimble to take the lead and hold it down the stretch for a 66-64 win.

A few years ago, the late Janice Chaffee wrote the book, “If the Prodigal Were A Daughter.”
In it, she took several parables of Jesus and rewrote them, making women the main characters in 21st-century settings.
My favorite story is her take of the parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15. She called it “Solana: A Loved Daughter.”

Feb. 14, 1985 (30 Years Ago)
On one of the worse winter days of the year, about 300 people flocked to the court house at Bedford Monday to hear Governor Martha Layne Collins and state school superintendent Alice McDonald talk about Kentucky’s educational needs. Both women answered questions from the local audience and were received warmly.

If the end of a legislative session is about what laws the General Assembly can pass, the beginning is about what the House and Senate hope will be on that list.
It’s not a small number this year, with about a dozen major topics expected to be considered by both chambers and many others also vying for passage. Making that process difficult is the fact that there are only 30 working days and the first four were dedicated last month to electing leadership and establishing committees for the next two years.

The 2015 legislative session of the Kentucky General Assembly began “part two” of the 2015 session on Tuesday, which made for a busy week for legislators in Frankfort.
Continuing the goal of “creating Kentucky jobs and strengthening Kentucky families,” the Senate Majority Caucus wasted no time introducing our next five priority bills and giving them a first reading on the Senate floor Tuesday.

HANOVER, Ind. - Trent Taylor was one of more than 300 students who earned Dean‚s List honors for the fall 2014 semester. To qualify for the Dean‚s List, students must have a GPA of 3.5 or better.
Taylor, a sophomore political science major, is the son of Tim and Michelle Taylor, Milton. He is a graduate of Trimble County High School.
Located on 650 acres overlooking the Ohio River in southeastern Indiana, Hanover is a premier, nationally ranked liberal arts institution that has core strengths in the sciences, education and business.

The University of Northwestern Ohio is proud to acknowledge that Milton resident Cody L. Dean has made the Dean’s List for the November 2014 session in the College of Applied Technologies. Full-time students must achieve a grade point average of 3.5 or better to be named to the Dean’s List.
Cody Dean is a 2014 graduate of Trimble County High School.
The University of Northwestern Ohio is located in Lima, Ohio.